Rob McMonigal at Panel Patter blog includes SubCultures in his 2014 favorites! But wait, there’s more (BCR-related stuff, that is): Whit Taylor’s The Anthropologists; Little Nemo Dream Another Dream, featuring Jerel Dye (plus Raul Gonzalez, Maris Wicks, Box Brown etc.); Liz Prince’s Tomboy, & Lucy Bellwood’s Down to the Sea Again – in which a BCR meeting is depicted!!!
The regular BCR meeting on Thursday January 8th will include an art supply and comics swap. Bring your un-wanted/un-needed art supplies and comics/graphic novels, and be ready to go home with someone else’s old stuff!
Cara Bean’s riso-printed accordion books are among the rewards you can get for contributing to the IndieGo Campaign for SAW: the Sequential Arts Workshop. SAW is Tom Hart’s comics school in Florida, where Lexington High’s Ms. Bean is currently matriculating. Sort of like CCS-south, and well-worth supporting!
The Daily Beast has named “Comics: a Global History, 1968 to the Present” by Dan Mazur and Alexander Danner as one of its Best Coffee Table Books of the year. “For the aficionado or the neophyte, Comics is a useful overview of a richly creative period in a burgeoning art. And despite the good scholarship the authors …
“Festival Season,” which was named the Best New Comics-Related Website of 2014 (by me, just now), has posted a rather unusual Holiday Gift Guide. Contributors include Jason Viola, Cara Bean and Kenan Rubinstein. There are some comics you probably missed on this list – minicomics, anthologies, “graphic novels or whatever you want to call them” — …
The first trade paperback volume of The Midas Flesh, collecting the first four issues of the science-fiction adventure series drawn by Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb for BOOM Studios, is now on sale at Million Year Picnic and other fine comic book stores!